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Cutting apparatus

a technology of cutting apparatus and cutting plate, which is applied in the direction of printing, metal working apparatus, other printing apparatus, etc., can solve the problems of user being unable to determine which side of the medium is the front side of the medium and which side is the back side of the medium

Active Publication Date: 2019-12-10
ROLAND DG CORP
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The present invention provides a cutting apparatus that can identify which side of a medium is the front side and which side is the back side.

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The crop marks C1 to C4 known in the art, however, do not change in pattern when the medium is reversed, which means that the user is unable to determine which side of the medium is the front side of the medium and which side is the back side of the medium.

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first preferred embodiment

[0028]Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As illustrated in FIG. 1, a cutting apparatus 1 according to a first preferred embodiment of the present invention is a “printer / cutter” capable of effecting printing and cutting on a medium 50 made of a transparent material. Although not illustrated, the medium 50 according to this preferred embodiment is a transparent resin sheet. The medium 50, however, is not limited to any particular type of medium. The medium 50 may be any transparent medium that allows printing and cutting to be effected thereon. As used herein, the term “transparent medium 50” may refer to the medium 50 that is completely colorless and transparent or the medium 50 that is slightly colored. In other words, the term “transparent medium 50” may refer to the medium 50 that is translucent to such an extent that color and shape of an image printed on the front side of the medium 50 are visually recognizable...

second preferred embodiment

[0064]The cutting apparatus 1 according to a second preferred embodiment of the present invention involves printing asymmetrical crop marks 40 each including the first crop mark 42 whose center is deviated in one direction relative to the center of the second crop mark 44. Thus, the cutting apparatus 1 not only makes a front / back determination on the medium 50 but also determines the two-dimensional orientation of the medium 50.

[0065]As illustrated in FIG. 7, the crop marks 40A to 40D according to this preferred embodiment each include the first crop mark 42 whose center is deviated in one direction relative to the center of the second crop mark 44 as viewed from the back side 52B of the medium 50. In this preferred embodiment, the center of each first crop mark 42 is deviated diagonally upward and rightward relative to the center of the associated second crop mark 44 in FIG. 7. In FIG. 7, the medium 50 that is in an “unrotated” state is placed on the platen 2, with the back side 52...

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Abstract

A cutting apparatus includes a crop mark print controller and a front / back determiner. The crop mark print controller prints a first crop mark on a front side of a medium and then print a second crop mark over the first crop mark. The second crop mark is larger in size than the first crop mark. The front / back determiner determines that the medium is placed, with its front side facing upward, when only the second crop mark is detected by a crop mark detector, and determine that the medium is placed, with its back side facing upward, when a pattern including the first crop mark and the second crop mark overlapping one another is detected by the crop mark detector.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of priority to Japanese Patent Application No. 2016-143240 filed on Jul. 21, 2016. The entire contents of this application are hereby incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to cutting apparatuses.2. Description of the Related Art[0003]A cutting apparatus known in the related art is configured to cut a medium made of a sheet material, such as paper or resin. A cutting apparatus having a printing function to effect printing on a medium is also known in the related art. For example, JP 2001-260443 A discloses such a cutting apparatus. In one example, such a cutting apparatus prints an image on a medium and then cuts a portion of the medium surrounding the image with a cutter. Because the position of a cut line for the image is determined in advance, performing high-precision cutting makes it necessary to minimize a misalignme...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B26D5/26B41J11/66B41J2/005
CPCB26D5/26B41J11/663B41J2/005
Inventor FUJITA, AKIRAMATSUSHIME, KENJI
Owner ROLAND DG CORP